Sheopur in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sheopur plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sheopur peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Madhya Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sheopur's incremental SNDi fell from 12.6 to 8.5 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sheopur ranked 95th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 1852nd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Shantipur, India
• Manmad, India
• Al Majar al Kabir, Iraq
• Sabalgarh, India
• Xiejiazhuang, China
• 石上村, China

In new street additions, Sheopur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Shantipur built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Sabalgarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Sheopur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Shantipur became progressively more disconnected and Sabalgarh fluctuated in connectivity. Sheopur and Shantipur have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.